Ointment



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

JEANNETTE W. NESMITH, OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO. 7

QINTM'ENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 13,1906. Serial No. 295,860.

To all whom it may concern: I

- Be it known that I, JEANNETTE W. Nils-- MITH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the county of Gilpin and State of Colorado,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ointments orSalves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates ,to ointments or salvesand consists in, certainnew and useful salves adapted to be used for healing diseased andabnormal tissue by application to, or near to, the same; such selvesbeing suitable for treating, for instance skin d1seases and subcutaneousdisorders.- For this purpose I admix with an oil or greasy excipient asuitable quantity of powdered. pitchblende. Pitchblende is an ore ofuranium and besides a the mildliy radio-active uranium itself, itconintegration of the uranium molecule.

tains ra um compounds and a number of other radio-active components notdefinitely identified; all perhaps producedby the dis- In a finelypowdered state, it roduces a continual stream of emanations o ra s orcorpuscles, or both, capable of "ro ucing profound chemical and physicalc anges in substances exposed to the same. In contact with, or

. proximity to, the animal body, it produces ealing changes in diseasedand abnormal tissues, the emanations while steady and continuous notbeing so strong as, to be dangerous. A salve containing pitchblendeapplied to thebody maintains a mild, continual stream of emanations ofgreat curative properties.

To manufacture such salve, I take a quantity of pitchblende and reducethe same to a fine powder. hicle like lanolin, or other fatty oroleaginous substances of a fluent nature in quantity suflicient toproduce a pasty ointment or Patented April 23, 1,907.

To this I add an ointment ve-' salve, the consistency being regulated tothat suitable for application to the portion of the body to be treated.A mixture of clay and glycerin, or similar substances, may be (usedwlth-the powder to produce a salve of convenient consistency.

A suitable composition may be made by mi'xin 50 parts by volume ofpowdered pi'tchb ende with 20 parts of a wax and 30 parts of arafiinoil.

What claim is:

1. A topical remedy comprising powdered 4 JEANNETTE W. NESMITH.

Witnessesz. R. B. BROWN, T. H. POTTER.

